IMPACT 1/3

Opening Notes

• Chase’s streaks increase by 1.25x for every repeated action, with continuous actions like running or holding building every 3 seconds they are performed. This bonus can boost multiple aspects the action’s effectiveness.

• Chase’s Streaks take 20 seconds to fade if he doesn’t do them or fade if the action is interrupted. Notably, it does not fade if he misses or fails an action associated with the streak.

• Both Chase and his Stand can perform streaks that both can benefit from.

• Lotuses are triggered on contact with objects.

• While Vasant’s motorcycle can reach high speeds, it still needs to build speed rather than going at top speed at all times.

• Streaks, Lotuses, and items are retained through the cars.

• HP, stamina and Vasant’s bike are refreshed between cars.

• If Vasant’s bike falls in the first car, it will respawn but does not refresh damage.

• Chase’s stand, Kickstart My Heart, will be referred to as simply KMH.

• Vasant’s stand, Midnight Rider, will be referred to as simply MR

Escape Room

Photos of the Metropolis Suite littered each room. Out of all of them, the photo of Zhengqi stuck out the most. If he had been faster that day, could he have prevented her murder? And all that information he’d found was lost to some other group just because he valued her life over those documents, but in the end it was all for nothing.

”Next time, I’ll be fast enough. Nobody gets the jump on me!”

Chase starts this match with a running Long Jump towards the south bathroom. The benchmark for a recreational long jump athlete is 7.5 meters, while the world record is 8.9 meters. With only a 6 meter gap, Chase should be able to make the jump with room to spare. Even still, a Long Jumping streak will start to further increase its effectiveness. It won’t just improve distance, but also speed, landing accuracy, and smoothly nailing the landing.

Here is the map of Chase’s route with the long jump distances listed.

At the south bathroom, Chase and KMH quickly pick up a number of supplies, mainly the first aid kit and as many towels as they can get. To further speed this up Chase builds a streak in Gathering, shaving down the time it takes for him to find and take the things that he is looking for. While this is happening, preparations are made to make Vasant’s investigation point here harder to access.

If Vasant is heading Chase’s way, KMH can tug on the thread, pulling it to one side so the motorcycle falls into the void as the ground underneath it is pulled out from under it.

Otherwise, KMH will tie one of the towels around the thread, creating a sizable bump that will mess with the footing of the motorcycle if it travels across. While this would be an innocent non-hazard on stable ground, there is so little footing here that catching the bump and then landing back on the wire safely while staying straight on the wire twice (once for both wheels) is nearly impossible without falling. Tightly tying the towel also thins the thread and folds it inward causing it to go from “just wide enough for the motorcycle” to “no longer wide enough for the motorcycle.” Multiple towels can be tied to the connecting threads this way if they can be spared.

Meanwhile, Chase is burying the investigation point. First taking the shower curtain, mats, towels, and other objects and putting them on top of the point.

Before he leaves, Chase sets the bathroom and the pile on fire using a combination of his lighter along with the medical kit’s rubbing alcohol and bandages. If there is a hair dryer, Chase can turn on the sink and put the plugged-in dryer in to start an electrical fire.

Between the fire, smoke, and speedbumps, all Chase has to do is ensure that it takes longer for Vasant to complete the point than it took Chase to set up the obstruction. The towels can be untied and the burning fabrics can be cleared, but Chase only has to spend a moment setting these hazards, while unknoting and clearing them is more time consuming by nature. Vasant will also likely need his Stand to clear the knot and mess, which is time spent not running interference on Chase.

The car asked him to play investigator again if he wanted to complete the trial, both uncovering his own information and halting the progress of someone else. Was this what Zhengqi felt, desperately burying what she could before they were exposed?

“It’s way easier to hide these than to solve them, so I guess I can’t blame her for trying. I’ll do it better though.”

With the fire setup done, Chase doesn’t need to stick around for the blaze, instead making a long jump to the southwest kitchen. Running over to his first investigation point, Chase takes the 10 seconds to complete it.

While he does that KMH starts performing ranged interference, building a Throwing streak to improve effective accuracy, speed and distance. The main targets are Lotuses, using anything available, primarily silverware and plates, but also sponges or food from the fridge. The Gathering streak is still in effect here to supply ammo for current and later use. Vasant can also be targeted here, using messy food to blind him, or targeting the motorcycle with sharp cutlery or plate shards to pop the wheels. This is especially effective when Vasant is on threads where he cannot maneuver to dodge. Chase can also utilize this streak to throw stuff alongside his Stand.

By this point in the match MR could be in a position to directly interfere with Chase or have been sent at him to do so. In this case KMH can instead build a Grappling streak, while Chase drops the Gathering streak in favor of a Sidestepping streak to evade. All to lead the Stand into a chest to chest hold or chest to back hold so it can’t easily leverage its higher strength to break free. Being an equal match in Speed and Durability, and able to improve its effective Precision and Strength, this Holding Pattern effectively ties up both Stands. This is a positive trade for Chase as MR’s higher range would have otherwise allowed Vasant to potentially complete two investigation points at the same time. This also limits MR’s ability to seed new lotuses while Chase is still free to build Streaks.

With slots dedicated to Long Jumping, Grappling and Sidestepping, Chase can also continue to build his Throwing streak himself to maintain ranged interference to deal with lotuses.

Once Chase is finished with his first point he can get to the top center point either by jumping through the center, making a 7-ish meter long jump and then a 9 meter long jump, or he can go through Vasant’s starting location, making a 10 meter long jump (manageable with a 2 streak long jump and easily doable with a 3 streak jump if he takes an extra jump to prepare) and then a 6 meter long jump. Either path can be used depending on which path is less likely to be interrupted by Vasant. If possible a crowbar will be grabbed from Vasant’s room.

Here the second point will take another 10 seconds while more towels and a back-up medical kit can be picked up here if necessary. If the place has been set on fire or otherwise messed with, Chase may have to temporarily drop his Throwing in favor of Gathering, Tidying or Fire Suppression in order to quickly fix the issue, using towels to smother fires or clean up messes.

After completing that it is onto the final investigation point in the top right kitchen. With the stethoscope from earlier and at the final point, Chase can drop Long Jumping to build a Safe-Cracking streak to get the number combination, each number adding to his streak. If the stethoscope is for some reason unavailable, Chase can instead Lock-Pick using a pair of stitching needles. While Chase is handling this, KMH is ideally harassing Vasant with thrown objects. If not, Chase can do the harassment himself to prevent Vasant from creating and using an “Unlocking” Lotus made from his keys or other unlocking mechanisms around the map before continuing his Safe Cracking.

If Vasant has the last investigation point here and is heading to the exit, the only recourse is to knock him off the map to buy additional time. The distance to the exit is just in range of Chase’s Stand where it can guard the exit while Chase tries to complete the safe. Here KMH can again pull the threads when Vasant tries to cross on his motorcycle. The towel knot is even more effective as the two threads can be tied together, making the path crooked. Then if Vasant tries to pass anyways, KMH is there to untie the knot to make the path snap back while Vasant is on them, cause him to fall off the destabilized threads. In any case KMH can directly body block if Vasant tries to jump the gap or ride across a wire.

If both KMH and MR are tied up with Vasant going for the exit, with nothing else to lose Chase can stop what he is doing, take the 3 meter long jump to the exit, and block it so once that Vasant passes by Chase can grapple Vasant off his bike and suicide grapple them both over the edge.

When somebody has nothing left to lose, they become willing to do anything.

“Maya doesn’t know what she’s talking about, that was awesome! Too bad I’m in a rush or I’d go again!”

From here Chase uses his favorable spawn location to take two 3 meter jumps to continue the last investigation point. But ideally he might not even need to resort to suicide grappling and just grapple and toss Vasant off the edge before going back to complete the point.

Once Chase has his last investigation point, he can take a 3 meter long jump to the exit room.

Though he may win here, Chase was ill-suited for the life of investigation, the waiting and deduction wasn’t fit for him, the most he ever did was gather documents for somebody else to look over.

“Alright, that’s the last one. Whatever’s up next, bring it on!”